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Patented lune 29, I880.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC JAMES H. PREATER, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

BAG FOR PACKING AND STORING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 229,333, dated June 29, 1880.

Application filed May 3, 1880. (N 0 model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES H. PREATER, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented an Improvement in Bags forPackingand Storing Coffee, Grains, Seeds, or other Articles, of which the following is a specification.

Bags have been made of canvas cloth, gnnny, and similar materials. They are inconvenient in handling, the contents are liable to become injured if the bag is allowed to remain on a wet or dirty place, and the opening and closing of the bag are attended with difficulty, and it the bag is opened to display the contents it may tip over and spill the material out.

My improvement is made to overcome all these difficulties; and it consists in a cylinder of canvas or similar material secured at the ends to hoops in combination with rigid heads to which the hoops and canvas cylinder are connected. One head is removable, so that the contents of the bag can be examined, or a portion or the whole removed or emptied out. This construction allows for the bag to be rolled from place to place, the bag "and contents are protected from injury by the wooden head when iesting upon the earth or upon any damp or dirty place, and the bag will stand up firmly without the risk of falling over, and the head can be removed, and thebag can be pushed down as the contents are removed, so as to give access to such contents and to allow them to be inspected.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical section of the bag complete, and Fig. 2 is a side view of the same with the lid removed and the flexible cylinder pushed down to show the contents.

The cylinder at is otgunny-cloth, canvas, or other suitable material. It is made up in the form of a cylinder, with the ends turned over to inclose a hoop, b, which bypreference is used at both ends, but may only be used at the end where there is a removable head, 0. The bottom cl and head 0 are both made with an offset or shoulder at 2, to allow for the attachment of the canvas cylinder to by nails or screws, and so that the projecting portions of the periphery of each head will serve as a protection for the canvas and as a convenience in handling the package.

The hoop I) should be used at both ends of the cylinder, the cloth being wrapped around the same so as to be firmly secured; but at the bottom the same may be dispensed with if the canvas is nailed directly to the edges of the head.

The hoop at the upper end of the canvas cylinder supports the same and keeps it in 'the proper shape when the package is open for the inspection of the contents.

It is preferable to attach the hook to the movable head by ordinary wood-screws.

I claim as my invention- The combination, in a package for merchandise, of a cylinder of canvas, cloth, gunny, or similar material, a hoop around which the cloth at one end is secured, and two circular heads of wood or similar material, substantially as set forth.

Signed by me this 30th day of April, A. D. 1880.

JAMES H. PREATER.

Witnesses HAROLD SERRELL, WILLIAM G. Mo'r'r. 

